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ESPN’S MNF SETS CABLE RATINGS RECORD Monday Night Football’s telecast of the Minnesota Vikings/Green Bay Packers game attracted 21.84 million viewers – the biggest audience for any telecast in the history of cable television, according to Nielsen Research. The ESPN telecast also beat out every program on broadcast television. The only thing close was ABC’s Dancing with the Stars,which drew 17.8 million. The game had attracted mountains of publicity inasmuch as it featured Vikings quarterback Brett Favre in action against his former team, the Packers, for the first time....

OPRAH REMAINS TV’S TOP EARNER Television networks may spend the lion’s share of their budgets on primetime television shows, but if you’re a TV personality, the big bucks are not in primetime, judging from Forbesmagazine’s latest list of television’s top-earning performers. Topping the TV20 list once again is Oprah Winfrey, who earned $260 million between June 2006 and June 2007. Somewhat surprisingly Jerry Seinfeld comes in a distant second with $60 million, most of it earned from syndication....

Let’s-a go! The first trailer for Nintendo and Illumination’s upcoming animated adaptation of Super Mario Bros. has arrived. Released courtesy of Universal Studios, the Super Mario Bros. Movie stars Guardians of the Galaxy’s Chris Pratt and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Charlie Day as the titular brothers, Mario and Luigi. Check out the first trailer for Super Mario Bros. below! Based on the hugely popular video game franchise and featuring the beloved Nintendo characters, Super Mario Bros....

On January 2 the world will never be the same as Snakes on a Plane flys to DVD! To get you even more excited for the release of this instant cult classic we are giving away copies of it! Winners Receive: Snakes on a Plane DVD CLICK HERE to enter our contest! Synopsis: Fasten your seat belt for some pulse-pounding turbulence! There is no escaping the venomous bite of Snakes on a Plane as the year’s pop culture phenomenon creeps onto DVD January 2, 2007, from New Line Home Entertainment....

Host Jewel and Executive Producers Ben Silverman and Howard Owens discuss the upcoming 5th season! Entering it’s 5th season we recently had the pleasure of sitting in on a conference call for the popular Nashville Star. On this show amateur singers compete for several weeks to see which one will be selected by viewers’ votes as the next country music superstar. On hand to talk with us were host Jewel as well as executive producers Ben Silverman and Howard Owens....

You can take a new animated look at the world portrayed in a summer blockbuster this November. Terminator Salvation: The Machima Series will be released on DVD on November 15. The DVD of this 74-minute animated film will be priced at $12.97 SRP and you can take a look at the cover art and special features below. The animated film stars the voices of Moon Bloodgood, Cam Clarke, Jim Meskiman, Heather Halley and Dee Baker....

Perhaps the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the second chapter of a three-part story that will take 100 years to tell. Last month, the film debuted on the streaming service, resurrecting Leatherface at a time when other popular slasher film franchises are getting revivals. It was one of the most-watched offerings on Netflix soon after launch, but as of now, the future of the franchise remains unclear with no immediate plans to make a follow-up film....

Marvel Studios officially announced the start of production on the highly-anticipated movie The Avengers, which is set for release on May 4, 2012. The first set photo has been released, which features The Avengers logo and four superhero set chairs. You can click on the photo to access our gallery. We also have Marvel’s official press release announcing the start of production below the photo. Production has commenced today in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Marvel Studios’ highly anticipated movie Marvel’s The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon (Serenity) from a screenplay by Whedon....

Most shows do not last for more than a few seasons because of networks canceling the series or significant casting changes. Sometimes even the popular series don’t make it and find themselves on the chopping block. This is not the case for one of daytimes TV’s most popular programs. The Bold and the Beautiful turns 35, and they seem to be here to stay for some time. The official anniversary takes place Wednesday, March 23rd, and they have received the best gift that any show could receive — the drama has been renewed for two more years through its 37th season....

There are often many articles centered on the pressures put on young actresses in Hollywood to meet certain beauty expectations, but Robert Pattinson has touched on the same pressures being faced by male stars in the industry. While speaking to ES Magazine, The Batman star revealed that he has previously taken part in many fad diets in order to lose weight and meet certain expected standards. As the heartthrob lead of the Twilight movies, on the surface, it seems that Robert Pattinson has never had to worry about his looks, but scratch beneath the surface and the actor has frequently been drawn into joining the many actors who go through some extreme regimes to continue to be seen as meeting Hollywood standards....

Rosario Dawson talks about her latest film, working with this diverse cast, Sin City 2 and more Rosario Dawson has certainly come such a long way in a short time. 15 years ago, Larry Clark and Harmony Korine spotted Dawson on the stoop of an East Village apartment and asked her to be in a movie called Kids and a career was launched. An impressive body of work followed in the following years until Dawson really hit the big time with her role alongside Will Smith in Men In Black II and Edward Norton Jr....

Among the upcoming Star Wars TV series heading to Disney+, Ahsoka is right up there with The Mandalorian season 3 when it comes to fan expectation and anticipation. Of course, the series will see Rosario Dawson reprising her live-action role from The Mandalorian, which she returned to in The Book of Boba Fett. For Star Wars fans who followed The Clone Wars animated series, Ahsoka’s live action debut was a moment that helped tie together more threads of the franchise, and it didn’t take long for Ahsoka’s own series to be announced....

Universal is developing a remake of Drop Dead Fred, as a starring vehicle for Russell Brand. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dennis McNicholas, who is one of the writers of Universal’s upcoming Land of the Lost, will pen the remake. The 1991 original starred Phoebe Cates as a wallflower who loses her job and husband during the course of a lunch hour. Forced to live back home, she’s reunited with her childhood imaginary friend (Brit actor Rik Mayall), who promises to help but causes more havoc....

USA Today has posted an article about Warner Bros.’ upcoming computer-animated adventure, TMNT, arriving in theatres on March 30, 2007. The write-up reveals some of the actors who are doing voiceovers in the film: The article includes a movie still that states that Memoirs of a Geisha star Zhang Ziyi voices the villain Karai, who leads an evil army known as the Foot Ninjas into battle against the turtle brothers....

David O. Russell has added another huge star to his recently announced road trip dramedy Old St. Louis. First the director nabbed Vince Vaughn, who will also produce the film through his own Wild West Picture Show company. And now, New York’s Vulture is reporting that he has hired Scarlett Johansson to star as the female lead. The story follows a traveling toy salesman who reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter, whom he hasn’t seen after many years on the road....

It took a long time for a fifth installment of the Scream franchise to materialize, and with the death of Wes Craven in 2015 it seemed that it may not happen at all, but in January Scream will be slashing its way back into cinemas and co-director Tyler Gillett has already suggested that it won’t be the last time we see Ghostface. A decade on from Scream 4, the new entry combines characters from the original movie with a host of new younger ones who are essentially like lambs to the slaughter, and being the first movie without Craven in the director’s chair, the film has a lot to do to please fans....

After we spoke with Eric Christian Olsen and Nicholas D’Agosto, we just sat back and watched this insane process of wrangling together this sea of lovely young women and getting them in the right spots. After it appeared everyone had settled into place, they went through this same sequence in many different ways. One way they had to all say the same thing in unison, one way they had to look like they’re saying it but not actually say anything....

“I don’t know how much room there is for kissy-kissy bullshit when you are about to die!” - Shia LaBeouf Shia LaBeouf is quickly becoming the go-to guy for tentpole action flicks. He just keeps stuffing his resume with one iconic megapic after the next. Even from his early days, the kid knew how to pick a good sci-fi blockbuster from the meager projects his peers were working on. While he made a name for himself in smaller films such as Disney’s Holes and the Project Greenlight film The Battle of Shaker Heights, he also managed to squeeze himself into such high profile genre projects as I, Robot and “Constantine” playing the smart mouthed sidekick to both Will Smith and Keanu Reeves respectively....

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane was certainly the guest of honor at the mammoth party to celebrate the upcoming Family Guy: Something, Something, Something Dark Side, which will be available on DVD and Blu-ray on December 22, and he surely should have been the guest of honor: the party was at his amazing house. Before he got the festivities started inside, a white-tuxedo-clad MacFarlane walked the red carpet and talked to the press, and he had plenty to say, including that we might see the Tiger Woods controversy touched upon in future episodes of Family Guy....

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the seven films in consideration for Achievement in Sound Editing for the 78th Academy Awards®. The films are listed below in alphabetical order: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire King Kong Memoirs of a Geisha Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith Walk the Line War of the Worlds...